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TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS
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Ὠΐω πόλυ λεγκότερον.
[A thing] much whiter than an egg.
From Athenaeus.
107
Μήτ᾽ ἔμοι μέλι μήτε μέλισσα.
Neither honey nor bee for me.
This is a proverb quoted by a number of late authors. It is an example of Sappho’s successful use of alliteration.
108
Μὴ κίνη χέραδας.
Stir not the pebbles.
From the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius. Χεράδες were little heaps of stones.
109
Ὄπταις ἄμμε.
Thou burnest us.
From Apollonius, showing Aeolic form ημᾶς, “us.”
